Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 2 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 3 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 4 | However , they clung on to a victory which served to rekindle hopes among the travelling support that all was not lost after all in the title race , especially after news leaked through of Rangers ' demise at Celtic Park . |
| 5 | But what kind of battle ? she wondered apprehensively , discovering an exit from this bedroom which led on to a terrace , with an archway framing a velvety night sky filled with bright silver stars . |
| 6 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 7 | The decline of around 35 per cent in the number of births between 1964 and 1977 led rightly to a review of the provision of educational places . |
| 8 | Apollinaire and Hourcade added that this conceptual or intellectual approach led naturally to a selection of simple geometric forms . |
| 9 | With the funds available , Florey collaborated with Chain , whose work on lysozyme , already mentioned , led naturally to a study of a wider range of antibacterial agents . |
| 10 | Ferranti 's senior management was extremely unhappy about the arrangements , but at that stage took the view that they amounted merely to a credit risk rather than a fraud . |
| 11 | Table 7.5 shows the percentage of tracks with 0,1,2 , … additional records as a result of additions made randomly to a file . |
| 12 | The lane near our cottage led only to a farm , the youth hostel poised on the edge of the cliff and a monument to a Welsh poet , put there by his friends . |
| 13 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 14 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 15 | Some of the borders are designed to be cut out and appliquéd on to a host fabric , while others are an integral part of a plain background material . |
| 16 | In March 1992 , a questionnaire was sent out to all of the Society 's exchange partners in the hope that records could be updated and entered on to a database . |
| 17 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 18 | She limped into the air-conditioned hall of the hotel like an awkward seal plunging into a pool , and sank on to a leather sofa . |
| 19 | So I told the machine what it was about , and moved on to a golfer and one of the Black and White minstrels . ’ |
| 20 | He was awarded a benefit match with Jack Edwards on 17 October 1955 , when Leyton Orient were our visitors , but in March 1956 he inevitably moved on to a club where the immediate prospects were considerably brighter then at Selhurst Park . |
| 21 | Her hips moved slowly to a beat in the music only she seemed to hear . |
| 22 | A SCHOOLBOY escaped severe injury last night when he plunged through a skylight and crashed on to a bed . |
| 23 | Between 30 and 50 people were killed or injured on Nov. 19 when a freight train was derailed outside Tehuacán , 200 km south-east of Mexico City , and crashed on to a roadway , crushing vehicles and houses . |
| 24 | Wilson presents these in a chapter devoted entirely to a discussion of the practices of each of the 12 laudesi companies . |
| 25 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 26 | Bush objected fiercely to a decision by the House of Representatives on Aug. 2 , 1989 , to halve the funding available for mobilizing the missiles on the rail network . |
| 27 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
| 28 | We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table . |
| 29 | The two boys picked up their pints and moved over to a couple of chairs by the fire , just vacated by an elderly couple . |
| 30 | He moved over to a group of boatmen sitting beneath a large gilt mirror . |